update

Somehow Baby Girl hit 7 months when I wasn't looking. I'm not really sure how that happened. She can stand now - not on her own, but if you are holding her hands she'll stand. She still shows no interest in crawling. I know she's still young for crawling, but she used to seem like she would do it, and now she couldn't be bothered. She'd rather sit or stand. We'll see whether she decides to walk or crawl first!

She's a champ at saying da-da-da-da-da, but doesn't really work on her other consonants. She does, however, scream at the top of her lungs in really embarrassing places. Like the grocery store and at restaurants. They are happy screams, but they are SCREAMS. My friend who has a baby a month older than BG said her son went through the same screaming phase, so hopefully this is just something most babies do and she will get over it soon!

We put her Big Girl car seat in my car last weekend. It was sooner than we would have done it, but we got it on a super sale and we don't have room to store anywhere. And the infant seat was getting really heavy for me to carry around. So this is how BG rides in style nowadays (in my car only, the baby seat is still in Daddy's car!)

She's on 3 solid meals a day now, and I am debating giving up nursing entirely. It makes me sad, but I made it longer than I thought I would. I finally decided that I would do it until her first birthday, but it's getting harder and harder to pump at work and she doesn't nurse at home as much as she used to because of the solids. We have to supplement with formula for about 50% of her feedings right now. I'm thankful I got this far, and we're just taking it a day at a time.

In other, non baby, news, the weight loss is still going strong. That being said, this past week has been terrible and I full expect to gain this Friday. But I've accepted it, and I just hope to lose what I gained by the next weigh in. I just keep reminding myself that it's a marathon, not a race!

lucky #7

So as of today, I am down a total of 7.7 pounds. Yay for me! 2.3 pounds to go before I'll be down 10 pounds. I don't think I can do that in one week (especially since I'm failing at finding time to go to the gym), but I'm pretty excited that in 2 weeks (hopefully!) I will be able to say that I'm down 10 pounds from my starting weight.

Right now the biggest changes I have made are not getting take out for dinner - and to be honest, we did that at least once a week. Disgusting, I know. It's something I am working on, and luckily for me, Andrew is a willing participant in my quest to make more dinners at home. We both found a bunch of weight watchers recipes that we have been trying. It's not easy for us to cook every night, since we both have full time jobs, have a 3 hour daily commute between the two of us, and still find time to raise a child.

One of my goals for this week is to drink more water! I try at work, I really do, but I'm not trying hard enough because I don't drink enough water throughout the day. My other goal isto make it to the gym on Sunday, at lunch on Wednesday when I'm home, and on Saturday. 3 gum visits and water every day.

New Year, New Decade... new shoes?

yes, yes, yes, I'm well aware that the decade technically does not end till 2011, but people who harp on that are lame. Stop being lame. I am talking to you, Andrew.

Are you going to say twenty ten or two thousand and ten? I'm going for twenty ten. I really can't wait until 2021 when we can go back to saying '21. Except I will be FORTY YEARS OLD. And my baby will be 12. OH MY F&*%ING LORD I AM 12 YEARS AWAY FROM BEING 40

new topic, new topic.... if you ignore something it will go away....

I got on the scale this morning. Good news? I weight exactly the same as I did when I got pregnant. Bad news? I in no way look like I did before I got pregnant. Also, that is still overweight. Lesson learned - don't be chubby when you get pregnant, because then you have to lose the baby weight PLUS the chubby weight. But, in order to keep myself motivated (as if this ridiculous matchy matchy family picture with the WHITE SHIRTS isn't going to do that...) I've decided that at 10% lost, I will get new shoes. Also, I really want new shoes, so any excuse I can come up with works for me.

I haven't bought a new pair of shoes since last winter. I kid you not. I don't even know who I am anymore. So 10% lost = new shoes.

PS

As I will be cooking more often from now on (sorry, Center Pizza, I realize I am taking away a good chunk of your take out business...) I've linked another blog to the right. It's no longer updated, but it's a food & recipe blog so it really doesn't have to be up to date in order to be useful. Her WW friendly recipes are good, I've made some of them before.

Even if you aren't on any sort of diet, the author makes yummy food. This particular blog also has a lot of Jewish foods, so that may interest some people as well.

scared

I have gone back and forth on deciding whether or not to post this. I've started writing it and dented it more times than I can count. How personal do I want to get on this blog? I won't even put my daughter's name on it (though that's mainly because she has an uncommon name and I don't need crazy people knowing it!). Though her name is on facebook, so I don't really know what I am accomplishing by keeping her Baby Girl on here.

I'm digressing.

Anyway, I've decided to bite the bullet and let the interwebz in on my personal 2010 goal. Not that I feel like you need to know everything about me, but here it is.

I'm chubby.

Wait, you already knew that :) And I'm not that big, just bigger than I should be. When I realized that I had lost all my baby weight, but I was still heavier than I probably should be, I knew something had to change. My doctor is fine with my weight, but agrees it could be less than what it is. I just want to wear nice clothes again and not feel like an elephant.

So here it REALLY is. No tangents this time: I am going to be UBER LAME, and start weight watchers again on January 1. I don't have they money to go to meetings, but I will be doing it online.

Fear not, this blog will still be as pointless as it always has been. It won't be a specific weight loss blog any more than it is a "mommy blog". Of course it never could be a mommy blog, because I am not Mommy. I am Mama. And later I fully expect to be Mum. But I'll spell it Mom.

Digressing again

Weight Watchers starting Friday. I do not expect this will be easy, but I am giving myself a good bit of time to get it done. I want to buy a nice outfit to go on vacation at the end of June. I also have to be able to wear a white shirt for a family photo shoot by then (and can someone explain to my in-laws the "coordinating outfits" idea instead of the "matchy matchy" outfits for said picture?? We will look so much better if we do it MY way!!) I haven't work a white shirt since I was 15 and 100 pounds soaking wet.

If you want to join me, feel free. I will probably post total pounds lost every weigh in day. I say "probably" because I most likely will not want people to know when I've cheated and haven't lost any weight.